James Franco and Anne Hathaway are in full preparation mode for their hosting gig at the Oscars. (Strauss/WireImage; Granitz/WireImage)

James Franco and Anne Hathaway will meet with Academy Awards producers this week to begin fleshing out their hosting duties says the show's longtime head writer Bruce Vilanch. "We have to sit down with them to figure out what they will and will not do," he told us after his performance at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency last week.

When asked if he had any comic moments in mind for the duo, Vilanch said he'd "love" to do something with Hathaway and "The Black Swan," and that the "obvious bit" for Franco would be a spoof of his arm severing in "127 Hours." Then again, the latter idea may be so obvious, he added, that to shake things up, maybe Franco will "be the Black Swan and she'll cut her arm off." Just as long as they don't stutter through the show like Colin Firth in "The King's Speech."

Ryan Kavanaugh must understand that it's easier to be charitable when you're flying private. Sources who attended jeweler Bulgari's benefit at grocery mogul Ron Burkle's house in L.A.'s Benedict Canyon last Thursday, tell us that bidding for a trip to Haiti to check out a school built by Artists for Peace and Justice - a charity founded by Paul Haggis, Ben Stiller and Olivia Wilde - had stalled at $15,000 when the film-finance wunderkind came to the rescue.

The sources say Kavanaugh offered the use of his Gulfstream G4 plane for anyone who bid $25,000 for the trip. The deal sweetener turned out to be plane good sense: at least five people ended up signing on, including actress Milla Jovovich, "America's Got Talent" judge Sharon Osbourne and the charity-minded Kavanaugh himself, who, we hear, also teamed with Gerard Butler to offer $15,000 to Mark Shriver's charity Save The Children. All the Kennedy scion had to do was drop the f-bomb. He did. They paid.

Milton Glaser's crowning achievement isn't his art. The "I Love New York" logo creator and New York magazine co-founder was speaking at Tina Roth Eisenberg's Creative Mornings event at the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea Thursday when a fan asked the 81-year-old artist what he was most proud of in his lifetime. "Not dying," replied Glaser.

Diddy did it, but he wasn't first choice. Comic Chris Gethard really wanted Al Roker of "Today" to be the first celebrity guest at his monthly Upright Citizens Brigade show. But when the thin-skinned Roker said no, Gethard pursued someone he called "a little more inspiring, a little more unobtainable" - Sean Combs. Now, that's funny!

Gethard told us that he and his fans tweeted at the hip-hop mogul for 13 months to woo him onto the show, and Diddy finally acquiesced late Friday night. The bizarre, mostly improvised skit was built around Combs' life and included references to Ciroc vodka and Junior's Cheesecake.

"He was an extremely good sport about [the tweeting]," Getheard said. "But when he called, he was like, 'I just want to get this over with.'" Perhaps that's why as soon as the skit was over, Diddy grabbed his stuff from his dressing room - which, a source says, had been stocked with applesauce at his request – and split.